If it were me I'd always answer with "what do you think...?" or "you know that" and hope he stops asking in the near future, lol! My 4&5 yo still do this occasionally. If they did it constantly, I would probably try to teach them about thinking about the answer before asking a question...teaching them to think for themselves. Have a convo about it when he's not doing it. Tell him why he shouldn't do that all the time, but you never want to discourage him from asking questions.

Oh, how I hope he stops someday! And, I definitely don't want him to feel like it's bad to ask questions if it's genuine curiosity. I will try to talk to him about it and see if he gets what I'm saying.

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Repeat his question to him. If he says "is that huckleberry" repeat it exactly back to him. He is making conversation This has been effective for us.

Oooooh, I will try that! He will probably get mad at me LOL

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My 3 y.o. does this, we usually ask her the question back, or ask what she thinks the answer is, stuff like that. I figured it's just a developmental thing. She's also asking a million why questions.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. It does getting annoying because I *know* he knows the answer to whatever question he's asking. I am getting a fair number of "why" questions too.

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